Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction: states, chiefdoms, and social evolution
  • White's `neo-Lamarckism'
  • Evolution as such
  • Society: primitive and civil, chiefdom and state
  • Steward's `phenomena of limited occurrence'
  • Longitudinal studies
  • The Tiwanaku state
  • This volume
  
  
• The Taraco Peninsula
  • Geology
  • Climate
  • Micro-environmental zones
    • Upper Colluvial Zone (UCZ)
    • Lower Colluvial Zone (LCZ)
    • Springs and Grass Zone (SGZ)
  • Previous archaeological research
  
  
• Field methodology and ceramic phase identification
  • Survey and site definition
    • Ceramic scatters
    • Agricultural features
  • Systematic surface collection
  • Ceramic phase identification
    • Identifying Early and Middle Formative period ceramics
    • Identifying ceramics of the remaining periods
  • The dataset
  
  
• Interpreting settlement data
  • Correcting site sizes
    • Summary formulation
    • Assume that ancient household units are roughly comparable to modern ones
    • Correct sector size for artifact ``splash zone''
    • Assume ``point contemporaneity'' of occupation
    • Calculate total number of households for the sector
    • Calculate a ``sector population index'' for the sector
    • Calculate a ``phase population index'' for the region
  • Interpreting (corrected) sector sizes
    • Population through time
    • Site size hierarchy
    • Population density
    • The site founding index
    • The occupation continuity index
    • Population density change
  • Caveat
  
  
• The Early Formative: initial settlement and population growth
  • Phase definition
    • Early Chiripa
    • Middle Chiripa
  • Principal sites
    • Early Formative 1
    • Early Formative 2
  • Settlement and population
  
  
• The Middle Formative: emerging complexity
  • Phase definition
  • Principal sites
  • Architectural evolution
    • The Llusco Structure
    • The Lower House Level
    • The Upper House Level
    • Other sites
  • Lake level change
  • Exchange
    • Olivine Basalt
    • Estimating total olivine basalt imports
    • Source of exotic olivine basalt
    • Discussion
  • Settlement and population
    • Decreasing population growth rate
    • Increasing settlement system stability
    • Two-tiered site size hierarchy
  • Discussion
  
  
• The Late Formative: multi-community polities and state formation
  • Phase definition
    • Late Formative 1
    • Late Formative 2
  • Principal sites
    • Late Formative 1
    • Late Formative 2
  • Lake level change
  • Exchange
  • Settlement and population
    • Late Formative 1
    • Late Formative 2
  • Discussion
  
  
• The Middle Horizon: the mature Tiwanaku state
  • Phase definition
  • Principal sites
  • Settlement and population
  • Discussion
  
  
• The Late Intermediate Period: collapse and demographic decline
  • Phase definition
  • Principal sites
  • Settlement and population
  • Discussion
  
  
• The Late Horizon and Early Colonial Period: conquest and colonial administration
  • Phase definition
    • Late Horizon
    • Early Colonial Period
    • Are the Pacajes phases temporally discrete?
  • Principal sites
    • Late Horizon
    • Early Colonial Period
  • Settlement and population
    • Late Horizon
    • Early Colonial Period
  • Discussion
  
  
• The southern Titicaca Basin in the long term
  • Initial settlement, population growth
  • Autonomous villages, competitive ceremonialism
  • Multi-community polities, tributary relations
  • Tiwanaku dominance, state formation
  • Collapse, demographic decline, conquest
  
  
• Bibliography
• Site and sector registry
• Surface collection ceramic counts
• Ceramic analysis program code
• Occupation density program code
• Occupation continuity program code
• Settlement database schema
• About this document ...